Bassist Wanted

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Bassist Wanted

Comics for musicians

Dan the naive guitarist

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Popularity rank 26 #203. Parentheses in the title

January 29, 2009

JOHN: Smart bands have cool song titles. Like with parentheses. I wish we had songs with parentheses in the titles...
DAN: We have that one with a tilde.

JOHN: Which one?
DAN: The song about your GeoCities page.

JOHN: Oh yeah...

JOHN: That song did NOT age well.
DAN: No...

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Popularity rank 27 #201. Patriotic songs

January 23, 2009

JOHN: Maybe we should do something in the show tonight in honor of Obama.
DAN: Do we have any patriotic songs?

JOHN: We haven't played "Good Old Fashioned American Fingerbang" in a while.

DAN: Yeah, but that song's more ROMANTIC than patriotic really.
JOHN: Maybe.

DAN: Plus, Roni said she'd quit if we ever played it again.
JOHN: Oh, she's always SAYIN' stuff though...

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Popularity rank 28 #195. Eight measures

January 9, 2009

CHRISTINA: And... there. THAT'S 8 measures.

DAN: Oh wow, no, then I meant NOTES, not measures. "My solo will be 8 NOTES long" is what I meant to say.

CHRISTINA: OK, well... anyway.

CHRISTINA: That's why we were all staring at you on stage.

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Popularity rank 29 #194. Just repeat the chorus again

January 7, 2009

DAN: John, it's 4 AM, man. We've gotta stop writing this song. Let's just repeat the chorus again and go to sleep.

JOHN: NO!! It's gotta be something NEW, Dan! The BEATLES wouldn't "just repeat the chorus again"!!

A pause.

DAN: The Beatles don't have an early shift at Kinko's tomorrow.
JOHN: We don't sleep until we redefine the fundamental structure of pop music!

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Popularity rank 30 #193. Our name on the ticket

January 5, 2009

DAN: COOL! This ticket for our MERCURY LOUNGE show has our NAME printed on it!
CHRISTINA: Where? I didn't see our name.

DAN: THERE! It says "A.M."! For AMBULANCE MEN!
CHRISTINA: Dan, that's just our timeslot: "8 A.M."

DAN: Oh.

DAN: That's sort of a shitty timeslot.
CHRISTINA: It's not great.

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